Dlaczego malują?
Subtitle: twórczość chorych psychicznie ze zbiorów dr. Andrzeja Janickiego
By: opracowanie graficzne: Wojciech Głogowski
Contributors: Janicki, Andrzej (Physician), author, collector; Klimczak-Dobrzaniecka, Alicja, author; Markowska, Anna, author
Publisher: Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wrocław
Language: pol
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9788389262875
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Art and mental illness; Art brut; Private collections; Polish Painting; Polish Drawing; Psychiatric hospital patients; Biography; Art
Description: The drawings and paintings presented at the exhibition and in the catalogue come from the collection of Dr Andrzej Janicki, a long-term director of the Regional Hospital for Mental Diseases in Stronie Slaskie. The book contains reproductions of works by several hundred patients of Dr Andrzej Janicki and critical texts by professor Anna Markowska, mgr Alicja Klimczak-Dobrzaniecka and Dr Janicki. In addition, it also includes the stories of nine of the artists written by Dr Janicki, describing the course of their disease, therapy and the very work.
Notes: Texts by Anna Markowska, Alicja Klimczak-Dobrzaniecka and Andrzej Janicki.

Exhibition at the Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, 27 August - 11 October, 2015.